“Steve is one of the world’s most original thinkers in digital identity today”

Tricia Wang, speaking at the People Centred Digital Future, San Jose, 10 Dec 2018.

 

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Lockstep Technologies’ R&D has focussed to date on smart personal authentication devices, Internet anonymity, and Card-Not-Present (CNP) payments fraud.

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Resource Library

Steve is a frequent writer, speaker and commentator on all aspects of data protection, digital identity and information privacy.   Selected articles, presentations and interviews are collected here. 

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Featured blogs

Big Data Biometrics Government Privacy

The regulatory superpower of technology neutrality

The Australian government is currently holding an inquiry into the federal Privacy Act of 1988 (as amended in 2000)....

Internet Privacy Social Media

The Rite To Be Forgotten

The European Court of Justice recently ruled on the so-called “Right to be Forgotten” granting members of the public...

Big Data Internet Privacy

Free search.

Search engines are wondrous things. I myself use Google search umpteen times a day. I don’t think I could...

Privacy blogs

Privacy is really about restraint. We want others to know things about us, lots of things, but we expect restraint in how that knowledge is used.

Big Data Biometrics Government Privacy

The regulatory superpower of technology neutrality

The Australian government is currently holding an inquiry into the federal Privacy Act of 1988 (as amended in 2000)....

Innovation Privacy Software engineering

A critique of Privacy by Design

Or Reorientating how engineers think about privacy. From my chapter Blending the practices of Privacy and Information Security to...

Blockchain Constellation Research e-health Privacy Security

Blockchain, Healthcare and the Bleeding Edge of R&D

Last month, over September 26-27, I attended a US government workshop on The Use of Blockchain in Healthcare and...

Identity blogs

Identity management is what you need to know about someone in order to deal with them. Privacy management is about what we don’t need to know and still being able to deal with someone.

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Big Data Identity

If data is the new black (gold) how do we protect the supply?

Millions of people, and whole slices of society, are falling foul of bad data. Data is now a defining...

Robot taking a selfie

Biometrics Government Identity

Photo ID by selfie; what’s next — PCI-DSS for photos? 

The next authentication arms race is about to start in facial recognition, with Deep-Fake powered attacks on “liveness” detection...

Federated Identity Identity Trust

The market failure of the Standard Model of Digital Identity

A standard model of digital identity has been with us, more or less, since the publication of the Laws...